The contents are as follows:

(i) Letter, 1835, of the Reverend Allan McNaughton, Minister of Kilbride, Arran, on Miss Brown's School, Arran (folio 1);

(ii) Letters, 1843, undated, to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (folio 3);

(iii) Letters, 1873-1874, of T G Stevenson regarding his edition of ‘The Sempill Ballates’ (Edinburgh, 1872) (folio 12);

(iv) Correspondence, 1907-1947, of the Rymour Club, chiefly letters addressed to the successive Secretaries; see also MS.3767 (folio 40).